“Baked” Apples

You know what the great thing about baking an apple cake in the morning is? The accompanying breakfast! My mom always cooks (she always calls them “baked apples…” but it’s definitely a stove-top method…who knows) apples like the middle layer of the cake as a treat for fall or winter mornings, so, naturally, while baking the cake and needing to eat, I snagged a bowl of the apples and leisurely ate them with a cup of coffee while the cake baked. Divine. And so simple. Below is the recipe for 1-2 servings (depending on how greedy you are). (smile)

“Baked” Apples

In a sauce pan, combine all ingredients and cook over a low-medium flame until the apples are the desired softness.

Let cool for a minute or two, then eat! Preferably with a good cup of tea or coffee while sitting on your porch watching the birds flit from tree to tree (or maybe that’s just me).

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Because I read books (for a living!), work in a bookstore (yay barely paying jobs that merely support my book habit), and haven’t done a meme in awhile, here’s the Top 100 Most Popular Books from LibraryThing. Bold what you’ve read, color what you own. Star what you liked. Star multiple times what you loved!

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling (32,484)Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6) by J.K. Rowling (29,939)Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Book 5) by J.K. Rowling(28,728)Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Book 2) by J.K. Rowling (27,926) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Book 3) by J.K. Rowling (27,643)Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4) by J.K. Rowling (27,641) The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (23,266)The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (21,325)Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7) by J.K. Rowling (20,485)1984 by George Orwell (19,735) Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (19,583)The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (19,082) (Somehow I haven’t read it…but how!?!)To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (17,586)The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (16,210)The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (15,483)**The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (14,566)Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (14,449)**The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (13,946) Life of Pi by Yann Martel (13,272)Animal Farm by George Orwell (13,091)*Angels & demons by Dan Brown (13,089) Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (13,005) Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (12,777) *** One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (12,634) ***The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, Part 1) by J.R.R. Tolkien (12,276) **Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden (12,147)The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (11,976)The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, Part 2) by J.R.R. Tolkien (11,512)**The Odyssey by Homer (11,483)Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (11,392)Slaughterhouse-five by Kurt Vonnegut (11,360) Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (11,257) **The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, Part 3) by J.R.R. Tolkien (11,082)**Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (10,979) American Gods: A Novel by Neil Gaiman (10,823)The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis (10,603)**The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (10,537) **Lord of the Flies by William Golding (10,435) **The Lovely Bones : a novel by Alice Sebold (10,125)Ender’s Game (Ender, Book 1) by Orson Scott Card (10,092)

The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book 1) by Philip Pullman (9,827)**Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Neil Gaiman (9,745)
Dune by Frank Herbert (9,671) Emma by Jane Austen (9,610)Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (9,598)The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (9,593)Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (9,433) Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke (9,413) Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (9,343) ** Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire (9,336) Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (9,274)The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien (9,246)The Iliad by Homer (9,153) The Stranger by Albert Camus (9,084) Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (9,080) Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (9,027)The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (8,960)**On the Road by Jack Kerouac (8,904)**Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt (8,813)The Little Prince by saintexupryantoinede – 75k – (8,764)* The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis (8,421)*A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle (8,417)******Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman (8,368)The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (8,255) Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (8,214) The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (8,191)The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (8,169) ** Moby Dick by Herman Melville (8,129) The Complete Works by William Shakespeare (8,096) Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond (7,843)Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris (7,834)The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (7,829) Hamlet by William Shakespeare (7,808) Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (7,807) A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (7,793)The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (7,710)The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (7,648)The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (7,598) The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition by William Strunk (7,569) ***** (haha, why is this on here?!) Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (7,557)The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, Book 2) by Philip Pullman (7,534)***Atonement by Ian McEwan (7,530) The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (7,512) *******The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (7,436)Dracula by Bram Stoker (7,238)Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (7,153) **A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (7,055) Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (7,052)The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman (7,043)***A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (6,933) ** The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (6,901) ** Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (6,899) **** Neuromancer by William Gibson (6,890)The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (6,868)Persuasion by Jane Austen (6,862) Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman (6,841) The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova (6,794) Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt (6,715) ** A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers (6,708) The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli (6,697)